step 4/4: the docs say permissions too, and capability means one thing again

44 files of prose — CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, TODO.md, 20 docs, both plugin design
documents, and the comment surface the earlier steps could not reach.

Applied against an explicit keep-list, not swept, because the word turned out to
have SIX meanings in this repository rather than the three the offscale doc
recorded:

  permissions          renamed (steps 1–2)
  $OFFICER_ROOT/capabilities/  KEPT — the item store, and now the only thing
                               the word means that is ours
  sidecar routing keys renamed to `handles` (step 3)
  Lightning wallet     KEPT — a domain term, and on the wire to the mobile apps
  terminfo queries     KEPT — XTGETTCAP, in the pty sidecar
  InvoiceShelf         KEPT — per-resource { write, bulkDelete } flags

The sweep still falsified two things, both caught by checking rather than by
review, and both in prose that discusses more than one meaning at once:

CLAUDE.md began claiming the item store lives at `$OFFICER_ROOT/permissions`.
It does not; that directory is on disk and full of skills and tools.

And the offscale doc's own note about the collision became
"Named `permissions`, NOT `permissions`" — a sentence that had eaten the thing
it existed to warn about.

Both restored, and the note rewritten to say what is now true: capability means
one thing of ours, and three that belong to somebody else's vocabulary.

Verified live after restart: self and admin permission endpoints 200, gated
route 200, agent-status 200, 9 grants intact with 6 permissions offered.
tsgo clean, 797 tests, 787 pass, same 7.

The rename is done. Four steps, no data lost, no client break that survived
the step it was introduced in.
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { useClient } from './useClient';
//
// THIS IS NOT ACCESS CONTROL. Every answer here is a courtesy: it stops the app offering a member a
// Terminal icon that would 403, and stops a screen mounting a panel whose every request will fail. The
// lock is server-side, in the capability gate and the websocket gate — both of which
// lock is server-side, in the permission gate and the websocket gate — both of which
// hold regardless of what this hook returns, including when it returns nothing because the request failed.
//
// Which is why the failure mode below is deliberately generous rather than restrictive: if this request
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export type SelfPermissions = {
/** What an installed sidecar says about how it should appear. Mirrors UiManifest on the server. */
export type PluginManifest = {
sidecarId: string;
capability: string | null;
permission: string | null;
name: string;
icon?: string;
image?: string;
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ export function usePermissions() {
);
/**
* Whether a frontend route is reachable. Only routes a capability actually claims are ever denied —
* Whether a frontend route is reachable. Only routes a permission actually claims are ever denied —
* `/`, the settings shell and anything else unclaimed stays open, because denying by default here would
* blank the app for everyone rather than restrict it for anyone.
*/
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ export function usePermissions() {
if (!data) return null;
if (!data.deniedRoutes.some((route) => path === route || path.startsWith(`${route}/`))) return null;
// Held but unavailable → the sidecar is missing. Checked against the capability that claims the route,
// which is why `unavailable` is returned as capability keys rather than routes.
// Held but unavailable → the sidecar is missing. Checked against the permission that claims the route,
// which is why `unavailable` is returned as permission keys rather than routes.
const unavailable = new Set(data.unavailable ?? []);
const heldAndUnavailable = data.permissions.some(({ key }) => unavailable.has(key));
if (data.isOwner || heldAndUnavailable) return 'not-installed';